Does anyone multihome anymore? (was: Re: Cogent latency / congestion)

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Wed Aug 22 13:46:16 UTC 2007


At 03:49 AM 8/22/2007, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote:

>Pardon my forwardness, but don't people just multi-home these days?  If your

Multihoming is great for when there is a total outage.  In the case 
of Cogent on Monday, it wasnt "down"... In this case, there is only 
so much you can do to influence how packets come back at you as BGP 
doesnt know anything about a "lossy" or slow connections.

         ---Mike 




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